The State of Privileged Account Management in Healthcare Report

While 91% of healthcare institutions consider Privileged Account Management security a high priority, nearly two-thirds still rely on manual methods to manage privileged accounts and only one in ten have implemented an automated commercial solution.

The results are especially alarming when you consider that privileged account passwords and access are a prime target for hackers and one of the biggest cyber security risks in healthcare.

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Locking down privileged accounts should be on every CISO’s short list. If not, then they are inviting trouble. The path of least resistance for cyber evildoers is access to privileged account information.

Here’s how you can take action immediately

The State of PAM Report provides several recommended actions to help secure privileged credentials throughout your enterprise.

Educate key stakeholders in your organization about the urgency and value of Privileged Account and Access Management Security. Take the survey yourself to see how your current PAM practices compare with others, and share the results along with specific recommendations to address issues you’ve identified within your organization.

Discover where your privileged accounts are located across your entire enterprise environment. Here are two free tools from Thycotic you can use to discover where your privileged accounts are located for both Windows and Unix environments.

Automate the management and security of privileged account passwords. Check out these affordable PAM solutions available for any size organization and you learn more about the top five tasks you can automate in this free eBook.

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Joseph Carson reviews the groundbreaking benchmark survey on the global state of privileged account security risks across all industries. Some of the major risks discovered by the survey include:

• 1 out of 5 of companies have not bothered to change their default privileged account passwords.
• 30% of companies have no formal password controls and frequently allow accounts and passwords to be shared.
• 70% require no formal approval for creating a privileged account.